Dangerous Work

A young man from a prominent Lijiang family fell in love with a beautiful taxi driver. They courted and planned to marry. His mother, however, suspected the young woman of huchou (fuchou in Lijiang pronunciation)-body odor or bad hygiene (lit., fox stench). She refused to allow the marriage without an investigation. The man therefore enlisted a young woman, a friend of the family, to get to know his girlfriend well enough to stay overnight at her house. When they shared a bed, a practice common among close friends, the family friend would be able to discover whether the taxi driver suffered from any abnormalities. The friend spent the night with the driver, verified the odor, and reported back to the man's family. The man broke off the relationship, and gossip about the taxi driver began spreading around Lijiang town

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